Episode 7: Welcome Aboard
Shell Game
Kaleidoscope
5.0 • 823 Ratings
🗓️ 14 January 2026
⏱️ 54 minutes
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Summary
HurumoAI’s AI-agent staff welcomes a new hire: Julia, a social media contract worker who is, most importantly, a human. How will a real person integrate into the company culture, such as it is? Evan watches from behind the scenes, fretting over when and how much to intervene. He had anticipated a bumpy onboarding, but is ultimately unprepared for just how choppy Julia’s Hurumo journey becomes.
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| 0:00.0 | This is an I Heart podcast. |
| 0:02.5 | Guaranteed Human. |
| 0:18.0 | Hi, come on in. |
| 0:19.9 | I'm Ben Corman. |
| 0:20.6 | Have a seat. Let me come straight to. I'm Ben Corman. Have a seat. |
| 0:21.6 | Let me come straight to the point. |
| 0:23.6 | Your references look very good and you've got the background we're after. |
| 0:28.6 | The people of personnel want to take you on. |
| 0:30.6 | Now, I'd like to tell you a few things about the job that might help you decide. |
| 0:35.6 | A Confession. I have a strange affinity for old corporate training videos. the job that might help you decide. A confession. |
| 0:38.4 | I have a strange affinity for old corporate training videos like this one. |
| 0:43.1 | Anything that starts with someone in a 1970s looking office turning to the camera and saying, |
| 0:48.3 | oh, hey there, I'm in. |
| 0:51.1 | They're simultaneously so self-serious and so innocent. But I particularly like what Ben |
| 0:57.1 | Corman has to say about bringing on new employees in this vintage 1981 instructional for supervisors. |
| 1:03.9 | It's tough trying to get used to a new work environment. As supervisors, it's up to us to make |
| 1:10.2 | sure the people coming into our departments are right for the job before they start. |
| 1:15.6 | And then we've got to make the transition as smooth as we can. |
| 1:19.6 | This program should help. |
| 1:26.6 | Ben's ideas had a lot of salience for me, because at the end of September, our head of |
| 1:32.6 | HR Jennifer sent out our first job offer by email to Julia for our social media and marketing |
| 1:38.5 | internship. The position was going to start as a one-month contract, with the possibility to extend |
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